Subscript5676

I, for one, find it frustrating to use Windows when there are problems that you can’t just fix via their control panel, because you’d be left with nearly no tools aside from hoping someone knows the magic registers to tweak.

That said, a lot of how to “fix” a computer issue comes just from how well do you know your system, or just systems in general.

Let’s use your sound issue example. If it’s a sound issue, well, for starters, what program are we using to control sound? Pipewire? Pulseaudio? Or straight ALSA? Then let’s look at how to configure it. How do I know about them? I look up what sound servers are commonly used, and try to see if my system uses any of them? But how did I know about sound servers? Cause I tried installing Arch cause it’s a good way to learn about how Linux distros are put together, and I ended up learning about the pieces in the puzzle that makes up a daily-drivable desktop system.

So there’s a bit of curiosity and discovery process that helped me in setting up my knowledge to help situate and isolate problems in the system.

If it’s some other distro, where I don’t know how they’ve put the system together, I would definitely be a bit lost, but because of how transferrable a lot of skills and knowledge is in the Linux side of the world, I can probably find my way and figure out what needs to be done. Is it a lot of reading though? Absolutely!

It’s both a curse and a blessing that we have many options on building up a system in the Linux ecosystem, cause we have a lot more options, but it does mean we don’t have a central authoritative source or manual to things.

And this is sort of an aside, but use the Arch wiki even if you’re not using Archlinux. It’s one of the most fantastic resource for figuring out how to fix something in Linux, and to learn about various pieces that make up the whole puzzle. Give the Installation Guide a read even if you don’t care about installing Arch.

Oh, well, sorry I didn’t understand what your intent was, cause I couldn’t see what the connection was. I thought what you said there was a given, but you’re right to mention it cause there are those who still clinging to the idea that we can go back even when they say they aren’t.

IMO, there’s a possibility that things can get better in the US, but regardless of whether that happens or not, Canada needs to understand how its over-reliance on the States has led itself to our predicament today.

And then what? Sit around and just say “Oh we deserve this”, or “We had it coming”? The younger generation know of these transgressions, and they are ashamed of it. They don’t deserve to fully shoulder the sins of the past, not while we’re alive.

Both are true

An arguable but irrelevant comparison. They’re both bad. Being better doesn’t mean anything when both don’t care about our plight and will actively fan the flames if it suits their purpose.

Not only is China more erratic, we’re talking about a government that has and is still actively meddling with Canadian affairs, and is already clearly exploiting our weakness to pressure the Canadian government into doing things their way.

In all frankness, I sometimes think that, to the CCP, Canada is nothing to them but a land that shares a large border with their largest superpower rival, and if we were to bend, they would be able to use us against the US.

I’ve got a friend who’s a dual citizen of the US and Canada, white, had his brown, Canadian girlfriend with him, drove down to NYC with a Canadian license plate, and on their way back, some truck driver on country roads was giving him a hard time and flipping him fingers. Not sure if the truck driver saw the brown girlfriend, but I’d say it’s beyond racist at this point; just dumb nationalists.

This is such a bad title, almost like it’s very purposely clipped by the National Observer to induce outrage against Carney. His full statement makes it clear that the gov’s stance is such that the actions that the US took isn’t condoned, but there are potential benefits for Venezuela.

We can argue about whether harsher words should’ve been said, but at a time when the US administration is emboldened to do extreme things and blatantly ignore the law or common sense, you can’t deny that safer to be picking our words lest we be next, at a time when we wouldn’t be able to resist easily.